Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-12-07 Thread Itzik Edri
Error: TinyURL redirects to a TinyURL. :) On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Erik Zachte ezac...@wikimedia.org wrote: Here is notice that this issue has been resolved. A few days ago Christian Aistleitner patched webstatscollector to filter bogus requests. After that I patched the raw data

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-12-07 Thread James Alexander
http://tinyurl.com/psjd6oy Appears to be the correct tinyurl now (it appears when you get to the error screen from the original one but... it's very hidden underneath a single linked period) James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-12-03 Thread Christian Aistleitner
Hi Brad, On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 10:18:08AM -0500, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Christian Aistleitner christ...@quelltextlich.at wrote: . No other requests to Special:MWOAuth/ , Special:OAuth/ . Should we already see traffic to those endpoints? Not a whole

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-12-02 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Christian Aistleitner christ...@quelltextlich.at wrote: . No other requests to Special:MWOAuth/ , Special:OAuth/ . Should we already see traffic to those endpoints? Not a whole lot, yet, and it may never really get to be *that* many. On the other hand, maybe it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-30 Thread Christian Aistleitner
Hi Brad, On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 02:38:04PM -0500, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Erik Zachte ezachte at wikimedia.org wrote: Special:CentralAutoLogin/createSession Special:CentralAutoLogin/start You should also remove anything else beginning with

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-27 Thread Erik Zachte
Thanks all for thinking along. We have found the cause of the unbelievable growth in page views, and it turns out to be an bug indeed. Around August 2013 a site change caused internal housekeeping messages to be counted as page views by our webstatscollector software. As the patch was rolled

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-27 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Erik Zachte ezac...@wikimedia.org wrote: Special:CentralAutoLogin/createSession Special:CentralAutoLogin/start You should also remove anything else beginning with Special:CentralAutoLogin/. Maybe Special:MWOAuth/ and Special:OAuth/ too. -- Brad Jorsch

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-27 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Brad Jorsch (Anomie), 27/11/2013 20:38: On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Erik Zachte ezac...@wikimedia.org wrote: Special:CentralAutoLogin/createSession Special:CentralAutoLogin/start You should also remove anything else beginning with Special:CentralAutoLogin/. Maybe Special:MWOAuth/ and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-23 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Erik Zachte, 22/11/2013 23:21: We noticed and are investigating. It surely looks almost too good to be true. Any suggestions for an explanation are welcome. To address wild speculations on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Graph , it would be quite useless to have even just a simple

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-23 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Anders Wennersten, 23/11/2013 08:49: I have assumed it is an effect of Google starting to show an extract from Wikipedia on the page where they show hit results. Assumptions are dangerous. The feature was apprently enabled on 2012-12-04 for Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-22 Thread Erik Zachte
Hi Strainu, We noticed and are investigating. It surely looks almost too good to be true. Any suggestions for an explanation are welcome. Cheers, Erik -Original Message- From: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-22 Thread Lodewijk
I would guess either national press, or a change in how the popular search engines work? Are we running recording certain defaulted random queries from time to time to compare? Lodewijk 2013/11/22 Erik Zachte ezac...@wikimedia.org Hi Strainu, We noticed and are investigating. It surely

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-22 Thread Quim Gil
On 11/22/2013 01:41 PM, Strainu wrote: Has anything changed in the reporting or the visit patterns for these Wikipedias? It looks pretty weird to have a 100% increase for Romanian in just 3 months [1]. [1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryRO.htm Pretty similar to Spanish and Catalan:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-22 Thread Harsh Kothari
Similar thing to Gujarati Wikipedia http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryGU.htm Peak at August 2013 Down at April 2013 It may be possible that people who are using local language google search increased. On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 11/22/2013

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-22 Thread Anders Wennersten
I have assumed it is an effect of Google starting to show an extract from Wikipedia on the page where they show hit results. I raised the issue Sept 29 in a thread here called New Google interface to Wikipedia Anders Harsh Kothari skrev 2013-11-23 08:00: Similar thing to Gujarati